Teen gunshot victim sedated

cops hope for interview

Detectives are still hoping to talk to the 17-year-old girl critically injured over the weekend when she was shot and wounded in the neck on the city's Far South Side.

The girl remained under sedation late Sunday following the Saturday night shooting in the 13300 block of South Prairie Avenue in the city's tiny Riverdale neighborhood.

Authorities found the girl on a porch at about 8:15 p.m., where she suffered a single gunshot wound to the neck, police said. She was rushed to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she remained in critical condition.

Police had not yet had an opportunity to interview her to find out exactly how and why she might have been shot, said Calumet Area Sgt. Yul Cousins.

"We haven't talked to her yet, there's only speculation, but no facts" surrounding the shooting, the sergeant said.